All folk are prone to much admire

The thing they haven’t, but desire.

—Old Mother Nature

Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse could hardly believe their ears when Trader the Wood Rat told them he had built that great house he had invited them over to see. It hadn’t entered their heads that he had or could have built that great pile of sticks and leaves up in the tangle of vines in that tree. They had thought that, of course, he had made use of the old nest of someone else.

“Do you really mean that you have built every bit of this yourself? That there wasn’t even a platform here when you began?” Danny asked.

Trader nodded. “I mean just that,” said he. “There was nothing here and there never had been anything here. I chose this place because it looked good to me, and, as I told you before, ever

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